Hubby Likes!

Good news! Hubby likes the furniture! Which is great! I'm starting to think i can redo the whole living room for about $2000 which i think is pretty good. That includes new hardwood, an area rug, the furniture. Everything else I already have which makes things easier too! Now I just need to find me some time to be able to head up to direct buy to order it all up.

Tomorrow I'm going up to see a friend and her new baby finally. I'm very excited. She's blessed me with the ok to experiment my photography skills on her and her family! I sure hope things go the way I want them to! Hopefully tomorrow night I'll be sharing some excellent shots!

Start of a new blog!

I'm starting a new blog! One just for me and my thoughts, opinions and ideas and whatever creative outlet that I feel like sharing with everyone!

My thoughts are centering around new furniture lately. How we need some and yet continuously ignore this fact. Upstairs is full of toys, downstairs is full of toys and i just want a grown up area to relax in. I've decided to redo the living room. That is my goal to have completed by the end of the summer. New hardwood floor and new furniture. Almost everything is already painted and i've got things to decorate with now I just need to put it all together.

I've even found a couch set that I've fallen in love with, nice neutral, just needs accent pillows. I'm thinking maybe a baby blue, but we'll see. What do you think? I will not do red like in the picture, I'm very over red!

My baby is 1 today!

I'm up late and realize that today my baby is 1! He's getting so big and learning so much and I kinda just want him to stay small for a little bit longer. As of today he's a cruising, saying mom, dad, and uhoh monster. He loves his food and screams at whoever he sees with any until they give him some. He's so smiley and cuddly and curious too! Always wants to see what his sister and brother are up to and gets mad when they close him out (of the room).

Speaking of siblings, Sophia had her last day of playschool until the new year and had a xmas party to celebrate. She wore her pretty red sparkly dress and even got to see Santa when there. I would have loved to stay to see it all but unfortunately Evan is sick and has conjuctivitis (essentially pink eye) and it was also his nap time. I wish things had worked out so i could have stayed but such is life. Seth is a big boy and doing well with potty training however i still am not able to get him to stay dry in underwear....I'm wondering when that lil tidbit will sink in for him, but I'm not pushing it either. It will happen when it happens and hopefully before he goes to playschool next year.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVAN! I hope life is as sweet to you as you are to me!

New Kitty

We have a new kitty and have decided to name him Ash! He is soo cute and is white and grey and looks very similar to our old cat Soot! He's got a great personality and is awesome with the kids....we do need to work though on the kids being awesome with him as they do tend to get a bit rough with him sometimes.

Sophia is enjoying playschool and I'm enjoying taking her a whole lot more this year. She goes in the afternoon which allows me lots of time in the morning to get her and the boys ready and there's way less rushing around when it comes time to take her to school.

Seth is doing great at potty training and I think it's safe to say he's potty trained when naked, he'll take himself and wipe and everything. We are now currently working on him not have accidents when he has pants on (no underwear, just pants). He's doing well but does have the odd accident here and there. Either way I'd say he's making big progress!

Evan is officially crawling and sitting up on his own! Amazing what can happen in just a month! He's such a happy boy, but still needs to learn to sleep better in the night.....one day I will get him to sleep longer than a two hour stretch! Hard to believe though that Evan will be 1 in just two months! Where has the time gone by??

As Summer comes to an end it opens up new beginings!

We've had a fairly uneventful summer which is nice but I guess a little boring for the kids. Our highlights of it all probably include going to the beach, spray park, visiting with friends and our basement flood reno #2 coming to a close. So really not to much :) I have a feeling next summer will be a little more busy which will be alright to.

Sophia is a growing weed and has an interest in owning all the toys she sees on the shelves at walmart. She's still very much into tinkerbell, princess's and torturing Seth whenever however she can. Sophia is very excited to start her second year of playschool in two days (Sept 15th, 2009). She'll be going in the afternoon this year from 1-3pm on Tuesday/Thursday. Some exciting news is that Sophia read her first word: Sat!

Seth is busy growing boy too of course, but seems to be into less which is a nice relief. Eric and I are currently in the midst of trying to potty train Seth and he is doing pretty good so far. He seems to got it with pee so long as he has got no pants on. However we did have a poop accident when we were outside and he proceeded to poop on the sidewalk. He will get it eventually and I'm so glad to have hope on the horizon of having less diapers to change!!

Evan is a busy growing boy as well. I have no idea how much he weighs or how tall he is just right now since I haven't taken him in just yet to find out. He's a sitting and army crawling boy. Well he's army crawling for now anyways, he rocks on his hands and knees and is trying to figure out the normal way of crawling, but for now he gets around quite well. He's a very happy and smiley baby who just needs to learn how to sleep better during the night.

We right now are in the process of purging in our house. We have to much stuff and I still have lots of baby clothes from Sophia that need to go to the second hand store. We also are trying to get the basement room ready for Sophia to move down into so that we can put Evan into her old room, but in order to do that we need to finishing purging some more stuff. It's amazing what you can accumulate over the years. We've gotten rid of quite a bit and still have lots more to go.

On a last note I'm proud to say that I've already begun Christmas shopping :)

She's doing Great!

Sophia is doing so great that she's now asking us for her glasses in the morning. She does have the odd can I take them off or mistreats them moments but they are getting less and less! :) She makes me so proud!! :)

Evan gets shots at the end of the month :( I'm not looking forward to it but am excited to see how much he has grown!!

Almost All Week!

Sophia has been wearing her glasses almost all week all the time, you know minus sleeping and bath time. She is doing awesome and she looks just so darn cute! She does occasionally ask to take them off but it's getting fewer in between and does also occasionally sneak them off. Seth is so cute and always wants to poke both mine and Sophia's glasses. I think he barely noticed mine before Sophia got her own. Now what's next? The Easter Bunny comes tomorrow!!